Spectre, the Light Side

Tom Mandrake is one of those artists that should be on a monthly book and is not. If you've never read his and John Ostrander's Spectre run (five years/62 issues), please remedy that situation. At his website, he has a behind-the-scenes aspect, that reveals a comedic side to the creation of this extremely dark series.

Here I'll let Mandrake explain:

When I was working on the Spectre, John Ostrander used to like to do his Mr. Magoo impersonation as the Spectre when we got together to plot issues. One morning, while I was waiting for a Spectre plot from him I did a Mr. Magoo Spectre drawing, then faxed it to his house. That led to me doing a whole series of great comic strip characters as the Spectre. Every time John got one of these faxed to his house he knew I needed something constructive to do.

For me, the Calvin & Hobbes homage is both the best and the most disturbing. Be sure to check them all out.